“Christ is sufficient. We do not need support groups for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace and joy.”

- These Strange Ashes, Elisabeth Elliot.

If I get a chance, I’ll write a review and synopsis of These Strange Ashes. I picked it up off the library shelf a few weeks ago and feel as if I discovered a gem!

p.s. I actually had the pleasure of meeting Elisabeth Elliot this month. :)

More than four in 10, or 43 percent, of teens who instant messaging use it for things they wouldn’t say in person, according to an Associated Press-AOL poll released. .. “If they freak out or something, you don’t see it,” said Cassy Hobert, 17, a high school senior from Frenchburg, Ky., and avid IMer who has used it for arranging dates. “And if I freak out, they don’t have to see it.” … “Fear of rejection — if you’re face to face, you can’t close out the window and disappear if you’ve been rejected” like you could if you were instant messaging.

Read the rest from FoxNews.com

Interesting. And quite sad. What do you think?

“How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose! …You drove them from me, You who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place… O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation.” -Augustine (quoted in John Piper’s Taste and See)

HT: Anna from Hope Road

It’s re-exploding! There you see it, AK and KP are blogging together, Jake’s over at Off the Cuff now, Zachary (who I had the privilege of meeting last month) just re-picked it up, Travis commenced again… I’m dizzy! However, Ktsia is not ready to be thrown back in the ’sphere herself.

Yes, yes, I’ll be posting when I have something to post, but I won’t be focusing over here–or probably anywhere blogwise. If ya’ll really would like to find out what I’m doing and what I’m thinking at a given moment in life, you have my email address and my phone number. :)

I love this blog. It makes me quite happy. But my goodness, I didn’t realize very many people knew about it. :D

p.s. brief update for those of you who are finding this due to linkage, and don’t know what I’m currently up to:

It seems like I was just a sophomore in highschool, blindly feeling my away around some blog called the rebelution, and making contact with a couple of kids who would soon launch off regenerate our culture. Life finds me now, still friends with all these crazy kids I met through the ’sphere, a senior, ready to graduate come spring. That’s all. The end. No, not really. :) But to answer the main question: no, I do not know exactly what I’ll be doing once I graduate. To answer any other questions: God has been so faithful, just like He always is, and His grace continues to prod me along in whatever it is He’s calling me to do at the moment– even if that means climbing what seems like gigantic mountains!

Go forth with joy!

Today is an insane day of being disturbingly annoyed at almost everything and anyone around me. Especially myself.

“Jesus washed feet, Katie.”

That was the best thing I heard all day.

“And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.”

Called to set aside my pitiful annoyances. Called to love. Called to serve. Called set aside the sin, and run with joy instead.